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Some of the pack horses particularly the yellow Baldy and his kind moved eagerly when they saw that their masters had changed directions. But Vosper had to urge Mulvaney on with oaths and blows. In Virginia's first moment of wakening she could not distinguish realities from dreams. All the experiences of the night before seemed for the moment only the adventures of a nightmare.
Evidently the Bradleyburg citizens had no love for the mountain realms in the last days of fall. For the double wage that he promised he was only able to secure a half-rate man, Vosper by name, a shifty-eyed youth from one of the placer mines, farther down toward the settlements.
The rest of the policemen took up sheltered positions in doorways after warning the idlers to disperse and the sergeant turned to me. "'Now, Mr. Vosper, you'd better keep your nose indoors if you don't want it shot off. There's going to be trouble presently. He pushed me gently into the shop and shut the door after me. "I found the evicted tenants chattering excitedly and very unhappy.
She only knew that she was warm and full-fed, and the wind would bluster and threaten around her cabin walls in vain. For a long hour after Virginia was asleep Bill sat by the fireside alone, his pipe glowing at his lips. Lounsbury had gone to his blankets, Vosper was splitting wood for the morning's fire.
"As I turned the corner and looked down the wide thoroughfare the long stretch of pavement contained but a single figure; a dim, dark blot on the gray of the summer night. It moved towards me, and, resolving itself into a definite shape, showed me Piragoff in evening dress, enveloped in a voluminous overcoat and carrying a small hand-bag. "'You are punctual, Vosper, he said graciously.
Both were fully aware that such a fire as they could build could only gleam a few yards through the heavy spruce thicket. They knew that braver men would keep watch over that dreadful river for half the night at least, calling and searching, ready to give aid in the feeble hope that the two exhausted swimmers might come ashore. "Sure thing," Vosper agreed.
"Besides, Uncle Kenly won't go away for two or three days at least. He's been my guardian I'm his ward and I'm sure he'll make every effort to learn what happened to us." "I suppose you're right. You know whether or not you can trust Lounsbury. I only know that I can't trust Vosper." "They'll be waiting for us, don't fear for that," the girl went on.
Vosper, who had hunted for five-and-twenty seasons without ever subscribing one farthing to hounds, always declaring that each season was 'his last, or that he was going to confine himself entirely to some other pack, said it was nothing to make a row about, that he had seen fifty better things with the Tinglebury harriers, and never a word said.
I was delighted to see him and he was flattered at the profound impression his former visit had made on me. I began very deliberately, for I could hardly hold the scissors and was afraid that he would notice the tremor; which, in fact, he did. "'Why does your hand shake so much, Mr. Vosper? he asked in his excellent English. 'You have not been curling your little finger, hein?
Vosper, damaged in the encounter, would likely refuse to make the trip, upsetting all their plans. But at that instant Bill forgot all about it. He suddenly noticed his employers' clothes. And he gazed in open-mouthed astonishment. Both Virginia and Lounsbury were well gotten up according to their idea of proper garb for outdoor people.
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